Thread: The Icepick

looks good. not real big on curl tails myself, but ive never welded anything like you do with a candle. interesting concept. as far as having the same injection mold goes...i am aware there are several variations of this particular "spike", but i made this one to be a bit more on the finesse side at the end of the tail. you might see the arch in the belly in the picture with them in the mold yet, and it is triangular in shape as opposed to cylindrical as the variations i have seen are. it comes to a -very- fine point and the mold has to be warm so the tails will fill out. might be a little too fine in that regard. it took me 9 hours to complete the whole thing, which is nuts to me since they are so small. you would think "smaller bait, less time to make", but it doesnt work out like that unfortunately. smaller baits, smaller tooling...more broken cutters and more time.

A skill I wish I had. Nice !
Here's another that has caught 5 fish species - the claw off a bass craw lure added to a grub body:


thin flat molded tail added:


two grub bodies fused together (great wacky rigged or the usual way!)


One way to put to use soft plastic lures collecting dust for years. A little imagination can come up with excellent hybrids that really work! Posted many on crappie.com.

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Those look awesome.

Yes, they do.

The name of this bait has been changed to the Ice Shard. I didnt realize do-it had a similar bait under the same name. My apologies to do-it, had no intention of taking someone else's name. I really dont know what others have, I just kinda keep my head down and do my own thing. brian